# For Lamb - Hardcover

by **Lesa Cline-Ransome** (Author)

**An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South.**

_For Lamb_ follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north-- if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature.

Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching.

Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy.

**A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection**

### Author Biography

**Lesa Cline-Ransome** is the author of more than twenty books for young readers including the award-winning Finding Langston trilogy. Her work has received a plethora of honors, including dozens of starred reviews, NAACP Image Award nominations, a Coretta Scott King honor, the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a Christopher Award. Her work has been named to ALA Notable Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book lists and she lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.06 x 8.53 x 5.85 IN

**Publication Date:** January 10, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
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